Southwest Wins Appeal in Cyber Excess Coverage Dispute With Liberty January 23, 2024 By Ezra Amacher The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Southwest Airlines can continue to seek reimbursement under its...
Judge Rules that Southwest Failed to Follow His Order in Flight Attendant’s Free-Speech Case August 9, 2023 By David Koenig DALLAS (AP) — A judge has sanctioned Southwest Airlines, writing that the airline twisted his words and disregarded his order...
Southwest Passengers Face Delays After Nationwide Grounding April 19, 2023 By David Koenig DALLAS (AP) – Southwest Airlines planes were briefly grounded nationwide Tuesday for what the airline called an intermittent technology issue,...
Southwest Airlines is Sued for Not Providing Refunds After Meltdown January 4, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel Southwest Airlines has been sued by a passenger who said it failed to provide refunds to passengers left stranded when...
Southwest Chaos Is Told-You-So Moment After Warnings on Old Tech December 29, 2022 By Mary Schlangenstein and Ryan Beene The Southwest Airlines Co. meltdown that’s stranded thousands of passengers across the US has its root in outdated technology that...
Southwest Under Scrutiny After Wave of Storm Cancellations December 28, 2022 By David Koenig Major U.S. airlines were broadsided by the massive weekend winter storm that swept across large swaths of the country but...
Southwest Attendant Suffers Broken Back in Hard Landing August 10, 2022 By David Koenig DALLAS (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during...
Fired Southwest Flight Attendant Wins $5.1 Million Verdict July 18, 2022 DALLAS (AP) — A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sparring with her union president over abortion...
US Supreme Court Rules Southwest Airlines Cannot Force Wage Suit into Arbitration June 7, 2022 By Daniel Wiessner Southwest Airlines Co. cannot force a baggage handler’s class action lawsuit over overtime pay into private arbitration, the U.S. Supreme...
Judge Rejects Spouse’s Wrongful Death Suit Against Airline Over Lax Covid Safety June 24, 2021 By Andrew G. Simpson Citing a concern over “opening the floodgates” to litigation, a federal judge has dismissed a flight attendant’s negligence lawsuit against...